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Sphaeranthus indicus

The EFSA Compendium of Botanicals holds 12 constituent measurements for Sphaeranthus indicus. This page reports what those source records contain and how to reach them. It carries no effect estimate, no dose and no recommendation.

Accepted name in source: Sphaeranthus indicus L.

12Constituent measurements

0Safety records

8Cited sources

28Licensed products (Canada)

Regulatory presence

Health Canada's Licensed Natural Health Products Database holds 28 licensed products naming Sphaeranthus indicus as a medicinal ingredient, matched on the exact Latin binomial. A licence records that a product met the regulator's requirements for sale in Canada. It is not evidence that the product works.

Extract types on licence

Source material stated

Flower
Flower extract
Flower head
Flower heads
Fruit
Herb top flowering and fruiting
Leaf
Leaf extract

What the records describe

Constituents measured

Plant parts

Preparations

Recorded constituents

What analytical work has found in this species, at which plant part and preparation. A measured constituent is a fact about material, not about effect.

Substance	Plant part	Preparation	Concentration	Analytical method	Source
Isoflavones	Leaves	Solvent extraction	—	Unspecified	Resolve DOI
Sesquiterpene lactones	Flowering top	Solvent extraction	—	Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR)	Resolve DOI
Alkaloids	Unspecified	Solvent extraction	—	Unspecified	No resolvable identifier
Alkaloids	Leaves	Solvent extraction	0.31 Percent	Phytochemical screening	No resolvable identifier
Cardiac glycosides	Leaves	Solvent extraction	—	Phytochemical screening	No resolvable identifier
Cinnamaldehyde	Live plants	Solvent extraction	7.4 Percent	Phytochemical screening	No resolvable identifier
Cinnamaldehyde	Flowering top	Essential oil	—	GC-MS	No resolvable identifier
Eugenol	Live plants	Solvent extraction	6.95 Percent	Phytochemical screening	No resolvable identifier
Eugenol	Flowering top	Essential oil	—	GC-MS	No resolvable identifier
Saponins	Leaves	Solvent extraction	5.08 Percent	Phytochemical screening	No resolvable identifier
Sesquiterpene lactones	Unspecified	Solvent extraction	—	Unspecified	No resolvable identifier
Sesquiterpene lactones type eudesmanolide	Live plants	Solvent extraction	—	Colorimetry, Spectroscopy (Spectrometry) and Photometry	No resolvable identifier

Cited sources

The literature the compendium cites for this species. Metatron Health has no relationship with these authors or journals and earns nothing from citing them.

Nigam, S. S., Rao, A. Kameswara. Chemical study of the essential oil of Sphaeranthus indicus. Riechstoffe, aromen, koerperpflegemittel, 1968, p. 75-76.
Doss, A. Preliminary phytochemical screening of some Indian Medicinal Plants.. Ancient science of life, 2009, vol. 29, no. 2, p. 12-6.
Basu, N. K., Lamsal, P. P. Chemical investigation of Sphaeranthus indicus Linn. Journal of the american pharmaceutical association, None, p. 274-275.
Lodha, Vandana. Chemical analysis of the essential oil of Sphaeranthus indicus - an Ayurvedic plant of India. Indian perfumer, 2003, p. 29-30.
Fonseca, Lyle C., Dadarkar, Shruta S., Lobo, Aurelio S., Suthar, Ashish C., Chauhan, Vijay S., Chandrababu, Shanthi., Sharma, Somesh D., Dagia, Nilesh M., Padigaru, Muralidhara. 7-hydroxyfrullanolide, a sesquiterpene lactone, inhibits pro-inflammatory cytokine production from immune cells and is orally efficacious in animal models of inflammation . European journal of pharmacology, 2010, vol. 644, no. 1-3, p. 220-229. DOI
Sohoni, J.S., Rojatkar, S.R., Kulkarni, M.M., Dhaneshwar, N.N., Tavale, S.S., Gururow, T.N., Nagasampagi, B.A. A new eudesmenolide and 2-hydroxycostic acid from Sphaeranthus indicus linn. X-ray molecular structure of 4alpha,5alpha-epoxy-7alpha- hydroxyeudesmanolide. Journal of the Chemical Society, Perkin Transactions 1, 1988, no. 2, p. 157-160.
Dubey, Sunil. Growth inhibitory activity of Sphaeranthus indicus L. (Asteraceae) on Earias fabia Stall. . Environment conservation journal, 2002, vol. 3, no. 3, p. 83-87.
Yadava, RN., Kumar, S. A novel isoflavone glycoside from the leaves of Sphaeranthus indicus. Fitoterapia, 1999, vol. 70, no. 2, p. 127-129. DOI

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